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“He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.”
― The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
― The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“He was pinched perspiringly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never without hope.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“CHORUS:
You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!
Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!
Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
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